Sedge · playable research-loop experiment
MCR 879 · proposition machine
Open source-carried bodies. Keep only the pieces you want to carry. Then make a proposition.
The machine can test whether the pieces you opened support the relation you proposed. It cannot decide the historical person for you.
This first specimen uses controlled public MCR 879 relation states already carried elsewhere by the Workshop. It is deliberately narrow: three source bodies, one workbench, no hidden verdict.
Source bodies
0 / 3 opened
Carrier 01 · Commission decision · 15 Apr 1902
The Commission first distinguishes one Elizabeth Bell affidavit from other historical material carried for the applicants.
Controlled state: the Commission says the applicants’ historical material would make it appear that the Robert through whom they claim complied with Article XIV.
Carrier 02 · Commission comparator · 15 Apr 1902
The decision changes record body and carries a Robert Bell appearing in Commission-held records as compliant.
Controlled state: the positive comparator record enters an identity exclusion. The Workshop does not convert that government identity act into historical truth.
Carrier 03 · later patent exemplification
A later certified patent carrier can strengthen present confidence in a patent fact without becoming the physical object proved to have been before an earlier decisionmaker.
Controlled state: historical proposition and evidentiary carrier remain separate across time.
The outward door
This experiment is not a claims adjudicator and not a historical answer engine. Its job is narrower: make the difference between source support, identity joining, provenance, and unresolved relation playable.
If you found a bad rule, a missing source relation, a confusing interaction, or a proposition the machine handled poorly, that is useful workshop evidence.
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